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i Figure 1 represents a side view ot' the cd1?" ton-gin, showing in part the inner arrangehas only one hook-carrier. Their number mayA Awhere brushes or their equivalents strip it from cotton.

' and use my invention, I will proceed to'dethat space is placed the balr A, which connects the.y cranks, and is about thesame length as the top pieces, c c. the lowerend'of the Ymachine and the 4crank cnAsLEs Louis rLIs'cHM ANN, for NEW Yoan, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,037, dated January 16, 1866.

g Betknown th at I, CHARLES Louis FLEISCH- o'tNew York, State of New York, have invented and I do hereby declare that the yfollowing is struction and operation of the same, reference ment; Fig. 2, a top View oi thel same without the hopper; Fig. 3, a front View of the same, showing the bars; Fig. 4, a separate view, showing the mode of setting the hooks; Fig. 6, a full-size view ot' the bars, strippers, hookcarrier,- and cranklbar. A

The cotton-gin represented in the drawings be increased according to the power to lie em# pieren.

I The nature lof m-yinvention consists in sepaf rating bers of cotton from the' seeds by means of a series of hooks set in a bar, or hook-carrier worked by cranks in aina-nner that each hook describes aY circle, part of a circle, or curves in passing through the cotton, carrying r the ibers between bars, Where they are separated from the seedsand taken below the bars,

the hooks while they' ascend again into the To' enable others skilled in the art to make scribe its construction yand1 operation.

The frame of this cotton-gin is at one end higher-than at the' other., in order to make the machine more steady and to allow the seed,- when stripped from its-fibers, to roll oit' into a receptacle in frontof the machine. The uprights a ai and b b support the top pieces, c c, and stand, according to the number ohookcarriers employed, more or lessapart. Within The crank B is placed at at the upper end 'of the machine. The crank C has at one end of its shaft a crank-disk, D. Near the upper crank, C, there is placed a large driving or hand Wheel, E, which drives, by. means of a band, F, the pulley G. 'When the I band-wheel E is turned it gives motion tothe pulley G and its shaft H. That shaft E has on the other end a'cranlr-dishl, whichis con nected with a connecting-rod, K, to the' crankdisk D, in such ama-nner that the cranks B and C are turned about' one-quarter of the circle, so that c verypoint in theicrank-har A describes a quarter of a circle. f

vUpon the cranl bar Ais fastened thc hookcarrier L. To t carrier are secured the hooksaaaacm. proper position, the carrier L is made in two parts, f and g. (See Figs. 4 and 6.) The part f is provided with small vertical grooves, which have at theirends small horizontal holes d .cl d d d, in which the lower or bent part of l. the hook-Shanks are introduced in order to prevent thehooks from turning.l NVhen the hooks have been placed in said grooves and holes the other part, g,is secured tofj by means ofscrewboltsce, and thus the hooks are tightly fixed between saidparts f' and g.

The hooks may be straight or curved. Their shanks maybe ail of' one'and the same length, or (littering fronreach other in length, according to the nature of the cotton to be ginned. The hooks maybelmade separatelyor in plates. I foundthe most eli'ective mode of arranging thehooks to be by placingthem in sets from vsix to more, and each in succession longer vin each series or set, as shown in Figli, whereby every hook can act effectively upon the cotton. `At each end of the hook-carrier there is a.

guide-piece,p, which are longer than the hooks, in order to keep them in their proper position for entering between the two .bars M and N. 'These two bars M and N are of iron or other metal, and beveled at theiredges, as shown in Fig. 6, to facilitate the passage oi' the hooks between them. These bars are firmly secured to the frame, and are'set justfarenough apart to allow to the hooksfan easy passage, and at the 'same sufficiently near toprevent the seed from passing between them.

To remove the cotton from the hooks I employ strippers 01; made-of bristles`,'leather, or other suitable material. The strippers are placed. under the bars M and N, and as far apart as said bars, in order to st `from the hooks when they ascend.

The hopper? is placed over the harsh/Land. N. In this hopper there is placed the cotton to be ginned. The hopper is seta little above To keep these hooks in their the-bars M and N, to leave a space, Q Q, great enough for the clean cotton-seeds to pass out beyond the hopper and roll off from the machine into n receptacle placed in front ot the machine.

The space within the frame below the crunkbar is used for collecting the clean cotton. By placing a fan-blower onthe shaft'H and by closing the sides of the machine theclean cotton can-be blown into the vlint-room, and at the sla-me time it assists in clearing the hook# carrier' from the cotton-fibers. I

Operation: Vhen the hopper has been `sup- Ipleduvith cotton the driving-Wheel E is set iunnotion, which turns the pulleyGr, giving vthe crank-bar A and hook-carrier L the required" movement-wiz., to carry the hooks upward through the space between the bars M and N into the hopper, when theyT pass yrapidly through thev cotton in arcs of small circles, giving each hook a chance, on its forward and descending,r motion, to 'take hold of the fiber and'detach it from the seeds. The hooks, in their downward'movement, carry the detached iberswith them,leaving the seeds ou the bars M andNv for another operation, unt-il thecotton is entirely removed from them, when they are pushed out under the' sides ofthe hopper, which has the openings Q Q for that purpose. When the hooks ascend .again the;

leather strpsor brushes 0 remove the cotton from theni Land the clean cotton falls in the space below the crank-bar A. The clean seeds roll down on the surface of the inclined boards outside-of the hopper.

' What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Separating fibers of cotton from vtheseeds Vby ineansof a series of hooks arranged onu.

bar both ends-of' which describe circles: or parts o'f circles; orequivalent curved paths, in"

combination with bars,or the equivalent thereof, to form a space, between which the hooks. are made to rise ,to get holdo'f the fibers, andthen to descend to strip the ibers fronrzthe seeds, substantially as described. v

i 2. In combination with the hooks haring'a ,inode of operation substantially as described,I

brushes or their equivalents, for stripping the bers from the hooks as they rise to get a fresh supply of bers, substantially asl described.

- VCHARLES toms FLEISCHMAM. f

Witnesses:

`WM. H. BISHOP,

ANDREW DE LACY. 

